Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr

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Fascinated by the eccentricities of English social customs, Tony Ray-Jones spent the latter half of the 1960s travelling across England, photographing what he saw as a disappearing way of life.

Curated by Martin Parr and Greg Hobson, this exhibition features an unprecedented number of Ray-Jones photographs showcasing the brief yet prolific life and practice of this seminal photographer.

The exhibition provides a fresh look at Ray-Jones’s work, exploring the specific influences of historical and cultural precedents.

Tony Ray-Jones’s photographs are now seen alongside Parr’s first major body of work, made in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire between 1975 and 1979.

This curated collection of over 170 images, notebooks, book dummies, contact sheets, magazines and correspondence forms a new touring exhibition which demonstrates the close relationships between the works of these two important photographers.